Speak up for better schools, fewer jails

10:37 PM,
Apr. 25, 2013

Written by

Jim
KREIDER

Mark Twain once told a story about how the Russian government had withdrawn money from the public schools in order to support its military's presence in China.

"This is a monstrous idea to us," Twain said. "We believe that out of the public school grows the greatness of a nation."

Twain then went on to recall there once was a proposition in Hannibal to discontinue public schools because they were too expensive. "It is curious to reflect how history repeats itself the world over," Twain said. ...